Steven Holl Architects has won a competition to revamp Ireland's largest university, with a proposal featuring buildings that reference the geological forms of the Giant's Causeway. More about Steven Holl to overhaul University College Dublin with design referencing Giant's Causeway
London-based Henley Halebrown referenced both Georgian and modernist buildings when creating this Stirling Prize-shortlisted group of brick-clad student halls at the University of Roehampton's parkland campus. More about Henley Halebrown creates concrete-and-brick student halls for garden-like site
A team of local architects has added new amenities to a temple school in rural Thailand, using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down. More about Buddhanimit Temple extension contains dormitory for novice monks
An arc of clerestory windows set between narrow stone fins channels daylight into the theatre at the Stirling Prize shortlisted Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects. More about Niall McLaughlin Architects adds stone-clad auditorium to Oxford college campus
New York's Cornell University has appointed alumnus J Meejin Yoon as the head of its College of Architecture, Art and Planning. More about J Meejin Yoon to become first female dean of Cornell architecture school
Architect Benni Allan has used colourfully painted panels to create an all-new facade for his former school in Alicante, Spain, on a very meagre budget. More about Benni Allan gives his old school a facelift for just £1,000
Cambridge University college Hughes Hall has a new reception building – a converted shipping container designed by local studio Neubau. More about Shipping container converted into porters' lodge for Cambridge University college
Dezeen promotion: to celebrate its 15th anniversary in the UK, international fashion school Istituto Marangoni has announced eight new design courses at its London location, starting from October 2018. More about Istituto Marangoni announces new design courses at its London school
Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki has completed an educational centre, with a series of roof spaces, terraces and courtyards that contain eight Islamic gardens, for the Aga Khan Foundation. More about Fumihiko Maki unveils Aga Khan Centre in London's King's Cross
Toymaker The Crafty Robot has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest design — a DIY robot that can follow you around the house and bring you drinks. More about Smartibot kit turns any household object into an AI-enhanced robot
A combination of traditional stone walls and surfaces wrapped in pine battens help the Groupe Scolaire à Strega school in Corsica blend in with the surrounding wooded landscape. More about Amelia Tavella Architectes completes stone and timber school in Corsica
Transborder Studio has unveiled plans to add a contemporary extension to a Holocaust research centre in western Oslo, Norway, composed of box-shaped volumes that will be built into a hill. More about Transborder Studio's Holocaust study centre extension will be embedded into hill
HOH Architecten has connected two 17th-century Dutch canal houses that were "separated at birth" to create a new facility for the University of Amsterdam. More about HOH Architecten combines two 17th-century townhouses to create Institute for Advanced Study
In celebration of the 150th birthday of influential Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh this week, we're looking back at five projects that defined his career. Next up is his most famous building, the Glasgow School of Art. More about Glasgow School of Art is Charles Rennie Mackintosh's "masterwork"
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has unveiled plans for a maritime education centre in Birkenhead, across the river from central Liverpool, which will be anchored by a 19th-century hydraulics tower. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen to create maritime education hub near Liverpool
Architecture firm Brooks + Scarpa has reconstructed a high school in Los Angeles after it was destroyed by a fire, choosing a bright yellow finish for its aluminium facades. More about Yellow metal walls wrap Animo South Los Angeles High School by Brooks + Scarpa
Hollow clay bricks form the gridded facade of this faculty building at a university in the Polish city of Katowice, providing privacy and shade to the interiors while still allowing light to enter. More about University of Silesia's Department of Radio and Television is wrapped in "net curtain" of hollow blocks
Dutch studio MVRDV has unveiled plans for a new technology education centre in the Albanian capital of Tirana, which will be housed within a pyramidal monument to communism. More about MVRDV to convert communist monument in Albania into technology centre
Architecture studio Kientruc O has designed a kindergarten in Ho Chi Minh City, which is made up of a stack of gabled brick blocks and features a curving cantilevered staircase leading to a roof garden. More about Chuon Chuon Kim Kindergarten by Kientruc O looks like a cluster of brick houses
Canadian studio Diamond Schmitt Architects has completed a new home for the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, which features white facades that are meant to evoke a blank canvas. More about Diamond Schmitt creates white facades with pops of colour for Vancouver art school